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Ganoid

noun
1.
Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering.  Synonym: ganoid fish.



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Ganoidei
order Ganoidei


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... Consequently, the competition between fresh water productions will have been less severe than elsewhere; new forms will have been more slowly produced, and old forms more slowly exterminated. And it is in fresh water basins that we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes, remnants of a once preponderant order: and in fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders at present widely ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Ganoid" :   dogfish, order Ganoidei, Psephurus gladis, garpike, billfish, teleost, paddlefish, gar, Chinese paddlefish, ganoid fish, sturgeon, grindle, teleost fish, bowfin, teleostan, Lepisosteus osseus, duckbill, Polyodon spathula, Ganoidei, garfish, Amia calva


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